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Old 08-04-2006, 07:13 AM   #13
Hippikos
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It's pretty hard to deny the US was the big dog, the decisive factor, in determining the outcome of WW II. But, that said, if Britain owes us for our WW II efforts, we owe them for holding the line while we were ramping up, because the Nazis were after World domination, not just Europe.
In WW2 the US was an important factor, not a decisive. Without Russia, Germany would not have been defeated.

In 1917 it was pretty sure France wouldn't be defeated by the Germans and the Brits were doing better than expeced against the Turks. The US troops were more a moral boost than a strategic factor. Besides US never declared itself "allied" to Brittain and France, instead it called itself "associated". Canada, with less than 10% America’s population, lost more men and materials than the USA did. While US President Wilson did question the Treaty of Versailles, he never even tried to halt America from carpet-bagging Europe.
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